David Schober wrote on Sat, 20 November 2004 18:53 |
"Liberals have just been ruining America, eh?" Yes...absolutely.
The idea that anyone would allow partial-birth abortion is unconscionable.
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"Partial Birth" is a lie and a manipulative term.
I have no problem with allowing Abortion ... why? Because I value freedom and choice over governement administration of a religious value system. And so should you. It's a persons right, under the Christian God even, to have free will.
Neither do I have a problem with the Death Penalty ... in the cases where the offender is clearly guilty of multiple murders.
Yet most murder is a one off crime of passion, and in those cases I do not favor it. And there are MANY cases of innocents being executed, or jailed for that matter, because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong 'look' to their skin or dress code.
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Liberals have given power to the teacher's unions so an incompetent teacher can keep their job at the expense of the student. (And don't go carping about No Child Left Behind. I have a family of educators in TX that, to their frustration, are dealing with massive improvements to the education system thanks to NCLB. I'll be happy to discuss that in another post if anyone wants.) I remember years ago when I lived in LA, the LA Times did a story on the fact that the LA Unified School district had too many failing students. Their plan to fix this problem? Stop giving failing grades! From then on, nobody got a grade below a "C." You may think I'm joking, but this was no joke. Liberal education beliefs have said we can't tell a student they got an answer wrong. Because it might hurt their self-esteem. Thus, in some classes 2+2 can equal 5.
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The teachers Union and ALL unions were not GIVEN their power, they earned it through suffering and negotiating with power ... the American Way.
2+2 = 4. In any school. Exaggerating is no help to your cause.
My cousin is a career teacher and NCLB is not helping in Ohio. Maybe in Texas and California your schools suck, and in that case you do need reform. But in Ohio the teachers are good, and the NCLB rules are VERY counterproductive to real education and the welfare of the kids OR the teachers.
Bush ran in 2000 on states rights ... then he began to Federalize like no Rebuplican ever. The first month he got rid of the Statewide elected Medical Pot laws in the West. What a crock ..
states rights are good only if it draws out fundamentalists to vote against gays and for Bush in 2004, eh?
As for NCLB and the teacher rating system, if a school with the best teachers and the worst students can get B- averages, the teachers are punished. Where a school with brighter kids and average teachers get an A-.
And as for as 'judging' children .. here's the FACTS:
Children learn DIFFERENTLY. Some will excell in certian systems and some will be crushed by those same systems. Good education is not a strict system .. and NCLB is total bullshit in that regard.
In Texas, the NCLB thing was a big lie anyway, with kids that did poorly just kicked out to keep the numbers up.
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Liberal unions have made it illegal for fire fighters to give the same physical requirements to women as men. This idiotic idea risks the lives of those of us who need help. If you're ever in a burning building and need to be carried out, you'll be praying for a man to be the one to rescue you instead of a woman who couldn't do the strength requirements.
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Unless you are a real fat ass, any woman firefighter is capable of pulling you out. A different standard does not mean that public safety is at risk .. it's just a biological fact that women are not as strong.
Although I now see your pro male bias in everything you say. Fuck compassion and sensitivity ... test, penalise and destroy for a better world!
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The welfare state has proven to be a pit of quicksand trapping generations of young minorities to repeat the cycle they were raised in. Despite the billiions spent, these kids are worse then when welfare started. To his credit, Clinton jumped on the conservative band wagon and made it his own. Over the objections of his own party.
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There is no welfare state. That's a lie.
There is a sense of victimization and thus entitlement in some people that comes form ... oh, maybe SLAVERY and not having the VOTE for 200 years? I feel their pain, and although I do not believe in unfair entitlement - a fair playing field would be nice. Like Chris Rock said "I dont want to win if I'm worse than a white guy, but if it's equal ... hell yes! He's got a 400 year head start."
Thank God for the Chris Rocks' of the world who are intelligent and still true to their roots, while working to elevate the whole culture, black and white.
Racist as well as sexist, eh? Are you from the south? Still pissed about having to go a few extra steps for the less priveledged?
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Liberal lawyers like John Edwards have made OB doctors opt for a C-section in record numbers due to the massive chance of a lawsuit....driving up medical costs for everyone.
Shall I go on?
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This is total spin and completely untrue. The Federal Govnt has proven in non partisan studies even recently that lawsuits account for less than 2% of all healthcare cost increases.
Insurance costs, and drug costs ... the Conservative money machine ... are to blame for health care costs. Are the pharmeceuticals and insurance companies contributing to Democrats?
Republicans are so far up the ass of the pharmeceuticals and insurers I really cant understand how any intelligent person would blame a lawyer who gets a few million for going before a JURY OF OUR PEERS to prosecute the MANY medical mistakes that a system that RUSHES people through at a very HIGH FEE is bound to cause.
What would you want for compensation if they cut off your dick instead of your gall bladder? What is the PERMANENT INFECTION in my friends breast worth from her botched surgery? I say a jury of our peers is to blame, IF ANYONE is to blame ... certainly not a trial lawyer. A lawyer is a necessary evil in a system that is about fairness and deliberation before the public. If you hate lawyers, I understand ... but they are just doing their job.
So no judicial recourse for the common man ... no consumer protection .... screw blacks and women. I see your points now.
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How about music and art? Here's an interesting thing you can look at. Go to the iTunes music store and click on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts for the year. Start anywhere you want prior to 1990 or so and start clicking the year. If your screen is like mine, you'll see the top 28 or so songs for the year. Now start moving forward in time to 2003. Notce anything? The number of explicit notices from 2000 goes up dramatically. From none, to 2003, which had either a "clean" (as if you don't know what's being said) or an "Explicit" label. In 2003 there were 11 out of the top 28 with this "status." Young Buck is now being sought for stabbing somone at an awards show. Rappers kill each other. An art exhibit with elephant dung on an image of the Virgin Mary. "Piss Christ" a bottle containing a Crucifix in urine. I'm aware enough to know that some music doesn't speak to me. And that some art is a tough thing to understand. But sometimes, like the art exhitibit with the elephant dung, it's just shit.
I'm not for censorship and I've been known to use a good word or two. But what's bothersome is the modern liberal culture that ses this stuff and says, "Yeah! That's art!" But in 300 years that society will look back on us and see this crap is representative of the best we could offer??
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Art mirrors life ... and this society is a fucked up mess. The fact that an artist is the only one who can 'piss on christ' makes sense with the Religious Right in charge of governmemnt.
All the Religion in the world is not going to help this world, especially when it's forced by a government built on religious freedom from federal power, and when the enemy has opposing views and is more willing to suffer and die for them.
Too bad you dont see that .. I guess you're white and male.
Capitalism and freedom get HARDER every day.
We can be PROGRESSIVE in the unfolding future or CONSERVATIVE and REGRESSIVE in response.